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← 489 Pa. 35 - Commonwealth v. Arms

Commonwealth v. Arms’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 2007
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Rose · Commonwealth v. Whack · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. Russell

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““it is not this Court’s function to disturb the jury’s factual determination. ‘It is a basic tenet of our system of jurisprudence that issues of credibility are properly left to the trier of fact for resolution.’ Commonwealth v. Whack, 482 Pa. 137, 140 , 393 A.2d 417, 419 (1978). In exercising this prerogative, ‘[t]he fact-finder is free to believe all, part, or none of the evidence.’ Commonwealth v. Rose, 463 Pa. 264, 268 , 344 A.2d 824, 826 (1975).””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.